Murder in the Crooked House

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Naname Yashiki no Hanzai © 2016 Soji Shimada

First published in 1982 in Japan by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo

Publication rights for this edition arranged through Kodansha Ltd.

English translation © Louise Heal Kawai 2019

First published by Pushkin Press in 2019

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ISBN 13: 978–1–78227–464–3

Although this translation is of the 2016 revised Japanese edition of Murder in the Crooked House, the novel was originally published in 1982, and all details, such as the angle of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, are correct as of that date. The translator has attempted to stay faithful to place and time.

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